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- From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
- Subject: Re: Plan S -- Quebec separation
- Message-ID: <schuck.721932483@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <schuck.721174910@sfu.ca> <1992Nov13.164240.25217@cerberus.ulaval.ca> <schuck.721723283@sfu.ca> <BxtCu9.E88@ireq.hydro.qc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:48:03 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- beaurega@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Denis Beauregard) writes:
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- >In article <schuck.721723283@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes:
- >>
- >>Whats friendly about secession? It usually turns into civil war.
-
- >So, was there a civil war during or after secession of
- >- Singapour?
- >- Czequy (sp?)/Slovaquia (soon to be former Czecoslovaquia)?
- >- Australia/New Zealand/Canada most other former British colonies?
- >- Baltic countries?
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- Czeckoslovakia is the only true secession among the lot, and we don't
- know how that will turn out.
-
- If you want to talk secession examples, how about:
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- The US from the UK.
- The Southern US from the Northern US.
- Texas from Mexico.
- Biafra from Nigeria.
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-
-
- >>Please do. Make my day. Then Canada can get with the job of saving itself.
- >>We can't if you stay. It's too expensive economically and politically.
-
- >Felix Leclerc wrote something like that:
- >The day Quebec will go on her own, the first one that will come to
- >felicitate and begin negotiations for trade exchange will be our
- >Canadian (future) neighbors.
-
- Thats wishful thinking. Free Trade with the US is causing problems in
- Central Canada, and it gives us access to a market of 250,000,000.
- The Quebec market is so small comparatively.
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